Texas Rising (2015)

Pretty Good

Fantastic!

Absolutely brilliant

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is a good show if your not to anal about facts. The acting is decent and it is clear that a strong effort has been made to bring very good action scenes. The story is based around what happens after the Alamo and freely makes up story lines without much obvious research into what actually took place. This is obviously to allow creative freedom when producing future story lines and as a result the first series has led into an exciting subject for series 2, a much neglected part of American history and film making, Indian Wars. This show has been criticized for it's terrible disregard for fact and rightly so, but these critics do not seem to be able to see the bigger picture. It has been made well, it's interesting to watch and most importantly it has massive potential. The potential series 2 is set to tell the story of the cowboys struggles with Indians which has a depth of untold stories with countless battles and endless struggles to be told.Hopefully this program gets the chance to fulfill its potential but if it does what I would say to the producers is more detailed story lines and war scenes please.

I won't comment on the mangling of Texas history - too many others have done so much better than I ever could I bought this on DVD because I am a fan of Brendan Fraser. Brendan did not disappoint but as for the rest of it? On the whole the acting was reasonable but the story dragged abominably at times. Many extras look like they've just walked off the set of Deadwood. The firearms were at least flintlocks and not a revolver or Winchester 73 to be seen thank god! The motley collection of muzzle-loading flintlocks well reflected the Texican army's supply situation although Bill Paxton's Sam Houston referring to them as 'rifles' grates when 'muskets' would be the correct term. The story drags intolerably at times and a number of sub-plots - the settler family massacred by Indians and the Hays-Wallace quest for their stolen property - simply make no sense to the overall story.The action scenes are good enough with the right touch of gore and violence for today's audiences although the sex scenes are tame compared to Rome or Game of Thrones and perhaps should have been dispensed with. On the whole I didn't mind the series, the acting and action (when it occurred) made up for a lot of the faults. When watching just forget history and think of tag line at the end credits: 'All events and people in this production are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons living and dead is purely coincidental'.

This is great and entertaining stuff. I do understand those who complain about historical inaccuracies, but for others who live far away from Texas (such as me) or those who aren't in love with history books this is great TV series with historical background.This stuff shouldn't be rated as some historical documentary. Texas Rising and the other History channel hit "Vikings" deserve genre of their own as they both are great. Even if the scenario has been added with fictional stories and adventures, titles as these are great at recreating the authentic atmosphere of the past. It is great at showing the struggles and problems for people living in Texas in 19th century.On other hand I really enjoyed acting in this TV series as it has some well known actors.Highly recommended even if you aren't bookworm of history.

Anyone hear any information about this being available on DVD? I know you can buy it on amazon but it would be nice to have a hard copy. This way you can take it places with you that TV isn't assessable. Or a way to buy it on amazon and somehow put it on to a DVD? Anyways I thought it was a great mini series except for the last part of it. I expected it to be a "wow that was great" ending but was disappointed. I agree that they didn't have to show the dog dead but it was a fake dog so I don't understand why some people are getting so upset. Being a great fan of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, he played a great role in this series. Remember the Alamo!